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| View Poll Results: Your level of observance? | |||
| Non-practicing/secular form of religion |
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20 | 43.48% |
| A little observant |
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3 | 6.52% |
| Middle-of-the-road observance |
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11 | 23.91% |
| Strict adherence to religious rules |
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4 | 8.70% |
| Don't know |
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8 | 17.39% |
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carpe musicam
Join Date: Apr 2009
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In as far a religion means something one is "bound" and that in turn is a metaphor for a deeper meaning, I would say for example in the Judaic tradition when you take into consideration the story of the Akeidat Yitzchak yes it is, in the sense that you look below the surface of what is physically happening in the story and look deeper into the meaning of the story and what lessons are to be learned from it.
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"it counts in our hearts" ?ºº? “I have nothing to offer anybody, except my own confusion.” Jack Kerouac. “If one listens to the wrong kind of music, he will become the wrong kind of person.” Aristotle. "If you tried to give Rock and Roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'." John Lennon "I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous." Keith Richards |
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Live by the Sword
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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as again, all I have to say is, if you were to offer a complete litmus paper test to see if I'm good or evil, I wouldn't take it, cos I've done both bad and good things in my life
and being a Gnostic Christian, I wouldn't care either way and neither would God - I would just talk to Jesus to intercede so's I can go to Heaven, and my main aim in getting there is not the glorious architecture or the new life or my fellow Christians but the possibility of hearing every single piece of recorded music in the world until the day I die and thereafter |
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Live by the Sword
Join Date: Jan 2011
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there are only kosher/halal laws in the Old Testament
in the New Testament, God revealed to Peter all kinds of beasts, fish and fowls and allowed him/us to eat all that (I forgot the specific passage) so as a Gnostic Christian, I eat everything - in fact, I'm constantly on the trek for strange food |
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Live by the Sword
Join Date: Jan 2011
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all I have to say is that I find atheists basically having a intellectual vacuum, they need to fill it with something - whether it's debating about non-existence of God, having a good time, self-mediation about when they just switch off after they die
not saying that I'm all THAT intellectually fulfilled being a Gnostic Christian - but my own main tenets are that everything's pre-destined anyway since God is omnipresent, omnipotent and moniscient so who cares? I'm in the hands of a perfectly chaotic, impartial, non-judgmental entity - if I suddenly get hit by a bus afterwards and die - that's just the way it is |
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Music Addict
Join Date: Jan 2011
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Mate, Spawn & Die
Join Date: May 2007
Location: The Rapping Community
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Gingrich fears 'atheist country … dominated by radical Islamists' – CNN Belief Blog - CNN.com Blogs And of course if we say anything about it we're viewed as "snarky" or "trying to force our beliefs on others". Definitely feels like a no-win situation sometimes. |
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The Music Guru.
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Beyond the Wall
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Music Addict
Join Date: Jan 2011
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I'm not trying to stereotype atheists either. I specified it was from the atheists that I've dealt with. From my experience going to a Catholic high school (even though I'm not Catholic), I found that being snarky (can't believe i used that word) was definitely behind it. Involving religion in politics is just wrong though. Secularism is the way to go. |
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